Sentences with phrase «communities of religious conviction»

You get the Obama administration's contraceptive / abortifacient mandate on steroids and a full - scale legal assault by Clinton Administration 3.0 on the capacity of religious institutions to be themselves as they understand themselves to be: communities of religious conviction with a right to their own moral integrity, not mere instruments for delivering whatever the government deems to be a public service or a public good.

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Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

It is enormously difficult for many committed people to see their own and their faith communities» profound convictions as but one set of options among many in America's free religious market.

If a mosque ever opens, Islam will be able to promote itself in our midst through public worship, despite its beliefs and practices being alien to the religious convictions of the vast majority of our community.

Where community is dissolved into free and isolated religious convictions of individuals and the cult is transformed into mood and reflexion, there too the link with Jesus is less prominent.

True, the Smartphone can promote a certain kind of community, a network of contacts who share interests, ideologies, even religious convictions.

The film follows people of faith in rural communities, suburbs and cities, who are driven by their spiritual and religious convictions to re-examine what it means to be human and how we live on this planet.